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This week a "Comp Sci" PAWS tab was deployed on the operational campus PAWS server.
The "Comp Sci" tab is the new location for a collection of services that have been known traditionally by the name "intranet services". In a nutshell, these services are internal operational and administrative functions of the Department that are available to authenticated users for use in their everyday lives in the Department. Particular examples of these services include: Room Booking and Equipment Booking.
To use these services, users log in to PAWS and select the "Comp Sci" tab. Located on this tab are "channels" that contain the various services supported. The advantage of following this strategy is that standard campus-wide authentication mechanisms are used, thereby obviating the need to provide a separate authentication mechanism within the Department itself.
The initial roll-out of the tab will soon point to newly improved applications for Room Booking and Equipment Booking. Other services are currently running in their original form "behind" the "front door" of the PAWS portal. Numbers of these other services will be reimplemented in the near future.
The new tab was jointly developed by Student Interns Kristen Dergousoff and Brian Loewen, assisted and directed by Cary Bernath, Greg Oster, David Bocking, Mark Eramian and Mike Horsch.
Enjoy solving problems, eating pizza and getting prizes? Then come out for the Spring Programming Contest! It's a fun, local and free contest that is open to all students. Come out and claim the title of best problem solver. Novice and Intermediate levels are offered. You can register as a team or solo. When: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013The Spring Programming Contest is back!
The Department of Computer Science Professional Internship Program allows undergraduate students to obtain 12 or 16 months of practical "on-the-job" experience with a sponsoring company prior to completing the final year of their undergraduate degree program. The existence of a formally recognized internship program offers significant benefits to the students, to the industrial sponsors, to the department, and to the university as a whole. These benefits include: practical training and work experience for the students; technology transfer, productive work contribution, and prospective employee evaluation for the employer; and increased university-industry interaction for the department and the university. We are now accepting applications from companies and students interested in partcipating in the program. Interns will be placed in May/Sept 2013.
